James Ramsey Reed and Rebecca Jane McKean

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Husband James Ramsey Reed ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 23 Mar 1826 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Dec 1907 - Allegheny, Allegheny Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: James Reed (1793-1878) 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Jane Ann Alison (1799-1879) 3

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       Marriage: 16 Apr 1851 - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA 3

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Wife Rebecca Jane McKean ^{2 3}

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           Born: 31 Jul 1831 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

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         Father: James McKean (1794-1884) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Simpson (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M James Reed ³

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           Born: 6 May 1852 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 10 Jan 1906 - Bellevue, Allegheny Co, PA 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Alice Hutchison (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 17 Oct 1877 - Troy, Rensselaer Co, NY 3

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2 M Edgar Beverage Reed ³

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           Born: 27 Feb 1855 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 23 Nov 1913 - New Wilmington, Lawrence Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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3 F Annie Reed ^{3 7}

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           Born: 14 Mar 1859 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Charles Lyttleton Lyon (1858-      ) 3 7 8
           Marr: 5 Feb 1885 3 8

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4 F Mary Frances Reed ³

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           Born: 4 Jan 1870 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Oct 1877 - Dixmont, Allegheny Co, PA 3
 Cause of Death: Diphtheria
         Buried:  - Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - James Ramsey Reed

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Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA - a jeweler

He was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, attended school and lived there until 1846 when he went to Pittsburgh, where he worked for a short time as a journeyman for John Craig and W. W. Wilson. In 1847 he went into business for himself as a jeweler. In 1849 his father joined him and they formed a partnership under the firm name of James R. Reed & Co., Jewelers, for the manufacture and sale of jewelry, watches, clocks and mathematical instruments. The first store was at 36 Smithfield Street. They later moved to Third Street, and then to Fifth Street (later 5th avenue) and finally to Market Street. Mr. Reed was for years a school director and also one of the Board of Inspectors of the Western Penitentiary. As a member of the Third United Presbyterian Church, he was regular and faithful in the discharge of his Church duty.
He eventually sold his interest in the store and business to his nephew, J. Allison Reed, and retired from active partnership in the firm of J. R. Reed & Co., but never relinquished his interest in the welfare of the company.

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General Notes: Wife - Rebecca Jane McKean

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from Mercer, Mercer Co, PA

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 700.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 683.

3 Ella Campbell Slagle Nichols, Family Record (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately published, 1914).

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 699.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 885, 1015.

6 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1199.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 79.

8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 397.